Four thousand pediatric caregivers send an open letter to Emmanuel Macron to denounce the saturation of hospital pediatric services, according to a text made public this Friday.
The caregivers denounce inadequate working conditions and care, the result of “irresponsible political inaction.”
“Children in Danger”
Hospitalizations of children in inappropriate places, remote transfers, postponement of scheduled surgeries, premature hospital discharges… So many degradations that lead to “delays in care” and “endangerment of children”, they denounce.
The bronchiolitis epidemic is saturating the already “bloodless” services, while “an increasing number of medical and paramedical staff positions are vacant.”
They highlight “carers’ loss of meaning as a result of bureaucratic governance and activity-based pricing, leading to general burnout and mass departure of hospital staff.”
“Strong tensions” in Île-de-France
The signatories demand from the President of the Republic “urgent and lasting measures to promote the return of nursing personnel to hospitals with our children” and ask him to “act urgently.”
The director general of the Ile-de-France regional health agency (ARS), Amélie Verdier, acknowledged with AFP on Thursday, October 20, “strong tensions” in the pediatric services of the Ile-de-France region.
He called for the “responsibility of everyone”, in particular parents, to “protect themselves against winter epidemics”, through barrier gestures and vaccination against Covid “even for children”.
Source: BFM TV
